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ISPA Reveal WINNERS of the 2025 UK ISP Internet Industry Awards

14th November, 2025 (4 Comments)

The UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has tonight revealed the winners of their 27th annual 2025 internet industry and broadband awards. The night’s biggest winners included CommunityFibre, Lightning Fibre, and Wightfibre, each of which took home multiple awards. The former CEO of CityFibre, Greg Mesch, was also named ‘Internet Hero‘.

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Openreach Update – Project Gigabit Builds in Wales, Surrey, Hertfordshire and Wiltshire

13th November, 2025 (1 Comment)

Network operator Openreach (BT) has issued a progress update on their deployment of a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network in rural parts of Wales, Surrey, Hertfordshire and Wiltshire, which form part of their Project Gigabit contracts with the UK government.

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London ISP Community Fibre Launch 100Mbps “Business Ready” Broadband

13th November, 2025 (1 Comment)

Network builder and broadband ISP CommunityFibre, which has invested c.£1bn to deploy a 5Gbps speed full fibre (FTTP) network across 1.342 million UK homes (inc. 185k businesses within 200 metres of their network) – mostly in London, have today launched a new entry-level 100Mbps package for small businesses.

BDUK Publish Q2 – Q3 2025 Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout Progress Report

13th November, 2025 (7 Comments)

The Government’s Building Digital UK agency has today published the latest Q2 – Q3 2025 progress report on their £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout scheme. The data reveals that some 1.3 million premises have now received coverage from BDUK’s gigabit programmes since their inception, albeit only 131,090 via Project Gigabit’s contracts.

Business ISP FluidOne Appoints New CEO as Current Boss Steps Down

13th November, 2025 (0 Comments)

Business focused UK broadband ISP, IT and Cloud solutions provider FluidOne has today announced that their existing Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Russell Horton, is to step down after seven and a half years in the post. Russell is to be replaced by Paul Kahn.

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City of London Corp Picks Roc Technologies to Deliver New Network

13th November, 2025 (0 Comments)

The City of London (CoL) Corporation has picked Roc Technologies to deliver a new end-to-end networking connectivity solution, encompassing a UK-first enterprise SASE rollout for public services, AI-driven wireless capability and high-availability internet connectivity. The move comes after Roc reached a deal to harness Vorboss’ 100Gbps full fibre network in the area (here).

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Netomnia Rapidly Expands UK FTTP Broadband as Take-up and Revenues Rise

13th November, 2025 (29 Comments)

One of the country’s largest alternative broadband networks, Netomnia (Substantial Group), will today publish their Q3 2025 results. The figures reveal that revenues on their multi-gigabit speed full fibre (FTTP) network increased to £27.7m (up from £23.6m in Q2 and 125% YoY) and take-up reached 14% (up from 13.4%). Some 2.8 million premises are now covered (up 241k in Q3 vs 243k in Q2).

B4RN Secure Finance from Triodos Bank UK to Expand Rural 10Gbps Broadband

13th November, 2025 (11 Comments)

Broadband ISP B4RN (Broadband for the Rural North), which is a community built and supported network that has so far deployed their 10Gbps full fibre (FTTP) lines to cover 30,000 rural premises in England, has announced that they’ve secured new finance from Triodos Bank UK to help expand their network into the North East of England.

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Openreach Raises Prices on Copper Lines to Boost UK Fibre Broadband Adoption

12th November, 2025 (30 Comments)

Openreach has today announced above inflation price hikes on some of their older copper-based line products for UK internet and phone providers, which are designed to “encourage” comms providers to upgrade their customers to “digital alternatives” and full fibre (FTTP) technology; before legacy services are switched off in January 2027.

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Survey Claims 41 Percent of UK People Hit by Broadband Outages

12th November, 2025 (14 Comments)

A new Uswitch commissioned Opinium survey of 2,000 UK adults, which was conducted between 31st October and 4th November 2025, has claimed that 41% of respondents experienced at least one loss of broadband connectivity in the past 12 months and “15 million Brits” (67%) experienced outages lasting for three hours or more.

Altnet Broadband ISP Toob Wins Two North East Contact Centre Awards

12th November, 2025 (2 Comments)

Hampshire-based alternative broadband network and UK ISP toob, which has deployed a full fibre (FTTP) network across parts of South England and also harnesses CityFibre’s network in other areas, have today announced that they’ve won two awards at the North East Contact Centre Awards (NECCA) 2025.

UK ISP TalkTalk Business Follows Consumer Division by Refreshing its Brand

12th November, 2025 (3 Comments)

Business broadband and Ethernet provider TalkTalk Business (TTB), which was demerged from the wider TalkTalk Group in 2023, has now followed the re-branding of the group’s wholesale (PXC) consumer division by today unveiling a “bold new brand identity and website” of its own.

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Cellnex Delivers its First Consolidated 4G and 5G Mast Site for Vodafone and Three UK

12th November, 2025 (11 Comments)

Wireless infrastructure firm Cellnex has today announced that they’ve delivered their “very first” consolidated 4G and 5G mast site for the recently merged mobile operators of Vodafone and Three UK (VodafoneThree) – five months ahead of schedule, which was established in the Lancashire (England) town of Burnley. Many more are expected to follow.

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ISP Octaplus Test New AI Support System with UK Broadband Customers

12th November, 2025 (3 Comments)

Internet service provider Octaplus, which sells broadband packages to consumers via various full fibre networks, has today begun an exclusive “early-stage” rollout of their new AI (Artificial Intelligence) powered support system – Ask Octa AI – with a selected group of existing customers.

ISP Quickline Improve UK Business Broadband Packages for Rural Areas

12th November, 2025 (0 Comments)

Alternative network provider Quickline, which is building a new mixed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) and wireless (FWA) broadband network across rural parts of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire in England (3-Year Rollout Plan), has refreshed their business packages with a new pricing structure and strengthened Service Level Agreement (SLA).

Openreach Trial Trenchless Drilling Robot to Boost UK FTTP Broadband Build

12th November, 2025 (24 Comments)

Network operator Openreach (BT) has revealed that they’re conducting trials of a new “advanced robotic … space-age” trenchless drilling technology, known as MicroBORE, to help accelerate their ongoing rollout of Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP lines across the United Kingdom. It could also cut civil engineer costs and reduce disruption.

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New Cyber Security and Resilience Bill Introduced to UK Parliament

12th November, 2025 (5 Comments)

The UK government will today introduce their new Cyber Security and Resilience Bill (CSRB) to parliament, which aims to toughen existing defences against cyberattacks – particularly those that impact the health, energy, water and transport networks – and imposes new requirements on broadband, mobile, managed service providers, data centres and even their suppliers.